The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Milivoje Aleksic, Richmond Hill, CA;
Aris Balatsos, Toronto, CA;
Kevin O'neil, Toronto, CA;
James L. Esliger, Richmond Hill, CA;
Bruce Plotnick, Furlong, PA (US);
Milivoje Aleksic, Richmond Hill, CA;
Aris Balatsos, Toronto, CA;
Kevin O'Neil, Toronto, CA;
James L. Esliger, Richmond Hill, CA;
Bruce Plotnick, Furlong, PA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable device includes a controller that is responsive to a remaining power capacity of the battery, and a power consumption level of the portable device and based on user prioritized functional processing capability features, dynamically controls functional processing capability features of the device. The controller provides power for a higher priority feature at the expense of a lower priority functional processing capability feature consistent with the user prioritized functional processing capability features. A wireless portable device is also disclosed that includes a wireless signal strength determinator that determines a received signal strength of the wireless device and a controller that adjusts the functional processing capability feature of the wireless device based on the determined received signal strength and based on battery capacity information. In this way, received signal strength information is used as a further input to determine how to best adjust functional processing capability features of the device.